1000-Lb. Sisters’ Tammy Slaton Reveals New Relationship With a Woman 1 Year After Husband’s Death

1000-Lb. Sisters star Tammy Slaton revealed that she’s in a new relationship with a woman more than one year after her late husband, Caleb Willingham, died in June 2023.

“There’s something I haven’t told my family. Amy [Slaton]‘s not the only one that’s been seeing somebody new. So have I,” Tammy, 38, said in a clip of the TLC show’s season 7 premiere shared by People. “I have been seeing someone for the past couple months and it’s going pretty well.”

The clip showed Tammy sneaking out of the house and getting into her car, which left her brother, Chris Combs, wondering where she went.

“I think I want to approach this relationship different than I have in the past, so I haven’t told my family because my family’s gonna have something to say about it,” Tammy said. “You know, I think my family probably has more opinions than the world has assholes because they be farting so much.”
After noting that this was her first relationship since Caleb’s death, Tammy shared that her new partner was a woman.

“A few years ago I came out as pansexual but after Caleb passing, I just don’t want to be with men anymore,” she said. “I don’t know how my family is going to react when I tell them I’m seeing a woman.”

Tammy and Caleb first met in 2021 when they were both patients at a rehab facility. They tied the knot in November 2022, and their wedding ceremony was featured during a March 2023 episode of 1000-Lb. Sisters.

Seven months after their wedding, Caleb died at the age of 40. “Rip sweet angel you will forever be missed and loved so much,” Tammy wrote in a tribute to her late husband via Instagram in July 2023. “Thank you Caleb for showing me real love and happiness.”

The autopsy later revealed that Caleb died from “complications of super morbid obesity,” In Touch confirmed.

Amid the grieving process, Tammy admitted that she and Caleb were not on the best of terms before his death. “I hate getting on here and letting everybody see me like this,” she said in a July 2023 TikTok video. “I’m having stages of grief. Yeah, we were having problems, but I loved that man. I still do.”

“I miss him like crazy, but I wanted to thank everybody for your comments. I appreciate them, I really do,” she continued. “We’re not going to get into details of what happened. I think that, no offense, but that’s really personal.”

Tammy also previously opened up about her sexuality in a January 2024 TikTok video, in which she responded to a fan who asked if she was a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.

“I’m a supporter of everybody,” Tammy said at the time. “Well, I was saying I was pansexual but I kinda stopped messing with guys after my husband passed. So, I’m, like, a lesbian. Love is love. Everybody deserves love whether they’re gay, straight, trans, pan, bi, nonbinary [or] whatever. I’m just a lover.”